Article 2 Interpretation

(1)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954F1 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(2)

In this Order—

“Department” includes the head of a Department;

“statutory provision” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 (f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;

“transfer date” means the date on which this Order comes into operation;

“transferor” and “transferee” respectively mean, in relation to any functions transferred under this Order, the Department from and the Department to which the functions are transferred.

(3)

Any reference in Schedule 1 to an enactment includes—

(a)

a reference to any enactment in force on the transfer date amending or extending that enactment; and

(b)

a reference to so much of any statutory provision in force on the transfer date as confers functions on the Department of Finance for the purposes of that encactment.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1954 c.33 (N.I.).